ADS Group tests, certifies, designs and installs emergency lighting to I.S. 3217 across Galway. The standard requires a monthly functional test and an annual full-duration discharge test, normally three hours, proving every luminaire stays lit for the full period on battery alone. We carry out the annual test and certification, and set up a monthly regime your own staff can run and log correctly.
Monthly flick tests prove a fitting illuminates. They prove nothing about how long its battery will hold under load. Batteries degrade quietly, so a building that has passed every monthly test for two years can still fail a significant share of fittings on the annual discharge test. That is the test doing its job, not a sign the system was neglected.
Galway's converted and period commercial premises frequently have escape routes that do not match the original lighting design, because partitions, new doors and changes of use moved them. Emergency lighting covers a route, so once the route changes the coverage is wrong even with every fitting working.
A premises that fills up in summer should have its annual discharge test and any remedial work completed before that, while the building is quiet and a three-hour test on battery is a non-event.
Full detail on the system types, the standards and the certification process is on the Emergency Lighting page, and everything else we cover in the county is on the Galway page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
